DHAKA: United States said that they hold Russia responsible for the deadly attack launched on a Syria aid convoy.

The White House has called it an ‘enormous humanitarian tragedy’.
 
Top US officials have told BBC that two Russian air planes were liable for the deadly attack.

Russia strongly denies involvement of its own or Syrian planes, and says the incident was caused by fire on the ground and not by an air strike.

"There are no craters and the exterior of the vehicles do not have the kind of damage consistent with blasts caused by bombs dropped from the air," a statement from the Russian defense ministry said.

“We have nothing to do with this situation”, claiming their innocence, A Russian spokeswoman from the same ministry said US has ‘no facts’ to back their claim.

The strike, US authority said, was too sophisticated to have been carried out by the Syrian army.

"In any event, we hold the Russian government responsible for air strikes in this space."

The UN had earlier said it was "not in a position to determine whether these were in fact air strikes".

Eighteen of 31 lorries were destroyed and about 20 civilians were killed including a senior official of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.

The attack prompted the UN to suspend all aid convoys in Syria.

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